http://productreviewratings.com/2009/03/asus-m3a78-em-motherboard-review/ We test the Products so you don't have to... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:26:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://productreviewratings.com/2009/03/asus-m3a78-em-motherboard-review/comment-page-1/#comment-6644 K Andrew Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:21:42 +0000 http://productreviewratings.com/?p=2987#comment-6644 @Gary Stanullwich: I have the same motherboard and what i found was that whenever you install a new hard drive it automatically becomes the one that the bios sets as the 1st hard drive and consequently tries to boot from. What I do is simply enter the bios and change the HDD boot options --> problem solved. @Gary Stanullwich:
I have the same motherboard and what i found was that whenever you install a new hard drive it automatically becomes the one that the bios sets as the 1st hard drive and consequently tries to boot from. What I do is simply enter the bios and change the HDD boot options –> problem solved.

]]> http://productreviewratings.com/2009/03/asus-m3a78-em-motherboard-review/comment-page-1/#comment-5995 Gary Stanullwich Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:14:56 +0000 http://productreviewratings.com/?p=2987#comment-5995 Thanks for the "rundown" on this MOBO. I've also got an M3A78-EM MOBO. Mine has an AMI BIOS. I've been trying to find out the SATA Hard Drive limitations on the BIOS. Recently, I installed a Seagate 3G 1Tb drive. I installed this as a second drive (a data drive-no OS). Suprisingly, it worked. Considering my System (Windows XP Pro, 32-bit) kept asking for the drivers. Seagate and Tech Support for my machine said that I didn't need drivers. But, in the end, I think the drive died. Upon bootup, I'd have problems getting past the BIOS splash screen. Finally ending up with the error message : " NTDLR is missing. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart. (by my understanding is looking for the Windows loader file). With that I disconnected the drive. My main drive (with the OS) is a WD 320Gb SATA drive. I'm still not sure what went wrong. I'd sure like to be able to learn what went wrong, and apply it to my "bank of knowledge". Gary Stanullwich fhandley@hughes.net Thanks for the “rundown” on this MOBO. I’ve also got an M3A78-EM MOBO. Mine has an AMI BIOS. I’ve been trying to find out the SATA Hard Drive limitations on the BIOS.
Recently, I installed a Seagate 3G 1Tb drive. I installed this as a second drive (a data drive-no OS). Suprisingly, it worked. Considering my System (Windows XP Pro, 32-bit) kept asking for the drivers. Seagate and Tech Support for my machine said that I didn’t need drivers.
But, in the end, I think the drive died. Upon bootup, I’d have problems getting past the BIOS splash screen. Finally ending up with the error message : ” NTDLR is missing. Press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to restart. (by my understanding is looking for the Windows loader file).
With that I disconnected the drive.
My main drive (with the OS) is a WD 320Gb SATA drive.
I’m still not sure what went wrong. I’d sure like to be able to learn what went wrong, and apply it to my “bank of knowledge”.
Gary Stanullwich
fhandley@hughes.net

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